Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:34:46 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About extensible prinf(3), a slightly long X-mas card Message-ID: <27690.1134844486@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:57:15 EST." <20051217124717.H97875@sasami.jurai.net>
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In message <20051217124717.H97875@sasami.jurai.net>, "Matthew N. Dodd" writes:
>I'd rather leave the single letter specifiers and modifiers to the
>standards compliant printf and use something like %{foo} as the specifier
>for extensions.
Well, I would do 10 things different, but I don't see much point
in adding yet another API just because we like it better that
way, so I stuck with the GLIBC api.
As far as i know, the upper-case letters apart from [DIOUXL] are
available in all standards.
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